14 Wounded In Grenade Attack In Indian-Controlled Kashmir

SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Oct 6 (NNN-PTI) — At least 14 people, including a policeman and a journalist, were wounded Saturday, in a grenade blast in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said. The grenade attack was carried out in Anantnag town, about 50 km south of Srinagar city, the summer capital of…

UAE’s Hazza Al Mansoori Returns To Earth After Successful Mission Aboard ISS

DUBAI, Oct 5 (NNN-WAM) – Hazza Al Mansoori, the first Emirati astronaut, along with astronauts Nick Hague and Aleksey Ovchinin, returned to Earth safely, after completing his eight-day scientific mission aboard the International Space Station, ISS. The hatch closing of the Soyuz MS-12 took place at 08:20 UAE time. The…

Cotton Festival Resumes Activities In Syria’s Aleppo Again

ALEPPO, Syria, Oct 5 (NNN-SANA) – The annual Cotton Festival, resumed activities this year, after it was stopped for eight years, due to the terrorist war on Syria. The 57th Cotton Festival kicked off in Aleppo on Thursday. A carnival was organised on Friday (yesterday), in which carriages and vehicles,…

Airbus To Invest Over $5 Billion In Turkey By 2030

ANKARA, Oct 5 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Airbus is expected to invest around $2.5 billion in Turkey in 2020, and that figure will jump over $5 billion by 2030, Turkish Transport and Infrastructure Minister, Cahit Turhan, said. Turkey and Airbus have maintained a strong and successful collaboration in civilian and military aviation…

Five Dead, Four Injured In Wagon-Truck Collision In The Philippines

MANILA, Oct 5 (NNN-PNA) – Five people were killed and four others injured, in a collision between a wagon and a cargo truck, along a highway in Gumaca town in Quezon province before dawn on Saturday, police said. Police said, the crash happened at about 5:45 a.m. local time, when…

Families Sleep Through Landslide In Limbang, Sarawak

LIMBANG, Sarawak, Oct 5 (NNN-BP NEWS) – Five families in a big house at Kampung Bukit Kota, here, were shocked to see part of their house compound in a sea of mud, when they were rudely roused from sleep early yesterday morning. According to their spokesman, Dullah Tarip, 60, the…

Cambodia’s Top Court Upholds 25-Year Prison Term For Doctor Who Infected People With HIV

PHNOM PENH, Oct 5 (Xinhua) — Cambodia’s Supreme Court has upheld the decision of a lower court to sentence an unlicensed medical practitioner to 25 years in prison, for infecting over 200 villagers with HIV via the reuse of unclean needles. Yem Chrin, 60, was arrested in 2014 in northwestern…

ASEAN Ministers To Discuss Environment-Related Issues In Cambodia

PHNOM PENH, Oct 5 (NNN-AKP) – Environment ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), are due to meet in Cambodia next week, to discuss trans-boundary haze pollution and other environment-related issues, a Cambodian spokesman said today (Saturday). They will gather at the 15th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on the…

Stress-Ridden Judge In Southern Thailand Shoots Self In Chest

BANGKOK, Oct 5 (NNN-TNA) – A chief judge at a provincial court in southern Thailand, shot himself in the chest, but survived. Khanakorn Phianchana, the chief judge at Yala Provincial Court, was seriously injured and rushed to hospital, after he shot himself with his own handgun, in a courtroom. After…

Sri Lankan Court Rejects Legal Challenge Over Presidential Candidate’s Citizenship

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Oct 5 (NNN-SL NEWS) – A Sri Lankan court, on Friday, dismissed a legal case, challenging presidential candidate, Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s Sri Lankan citizenship, thereby allowing him to contest the upcoming presidential polls. A three-judge bench at the Court of Appeal, unanimously rejected the case that challenged the…